Taxation Act 1698

XXXIII. Recital of Appropriation of Part of £600,000, mentioned in c. 9. ante; Out of the said Money £20,000 applied to disbanded Officers of Scotch and English Regiments herein mentioned.

And whereas so much of the said Sum of Six hundred thousand Pounds mentioned in an Act of this Session of Parliament (wherein a Land Tax is granted to His Majesty) as is or shall be sufficient for paying off and disbanding the Regiments Troops and Companies appointed and enacted to be disbanded as is therein mentioned is appropriated for that Purpose It is hereby declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That out of the Money so appropriated or appointed for paying off and disbanding of Regiments Troops and Companies as aforesaid any Sum not exceeding Twenty thousand Pounds shall and may be issued applied and distributed towards clearing the disbanded Officers of the Scotch Regiments which were on the English Establishment and the disbanded Officers of the Three English Regiments lately of Colonel Henry Holt Colonel Luke Lillingston and Colonel Russell which were in the West Indies and for whom no Half Pay is allowed Any thing in the said Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.